Skipping between several plotlines and temporal shifts, it’s cast includes Kenneth Branagh as the admiral coordinating the British Navy’s chaotic evacuation from the Dunkirk mole, Tom Hardy as a spitfire pilot chasing down Stuka dive bombers in the sky above, and Mark Rylance as an ageing seafarer who joins a civilian flotilla of small boats to bolster the rescue mission.

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While Christopher Nolan's film seems like a dark, uncompromising slab of wartime mayhem, at times you see it's related to more mainstream Hollywood sensibilities, like the broody younger brother of a Spielberg movie.